Ravens Free Agency: Sign Lions WR as OBJ Replacement?

Timm Hamm | Mar 24, 2024

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The Baltimore Ravens are set to lose Odell Beckham Jr. this offseason, and after the price tag to sign him last year, that isn't a bad thing. OBJ caught just 35 passes for 565 yards and three touchdowns over 14 games in 2023, and Baltimore paid him $16 million.

This time around, general manager Eric DeCosta could look for a cheaper option in free agency. Baltimore has already re-signed Nelson Agholor to a one-year, $3.75 million deal after his 35 catches, 381 yards and four touchdowns for the team last year - on a one-year, $3.25 million deal.

Detroit Lions receiver Josh Reynolds could be one of those cheaper options, as Spotract projects Reynolds signing a two-year, $14 million deal in free agency.

The Texas A&M Aggies product caught 40 balls for 608 yards and four touchdowns last year in a career season in Detroit - where Reynolds has spent the last two-plus seasons.

His success in the explosive Lions' offense should translate well in Baltimore, where the offense should be well-balanced and equally explosive in offensive coordinator Todd Monken's second year with the club.

Reynolds entered the NFL as a fourth-round pick (No. 117 overall) of the Los Angeles Rams in the 2017 NFL Draft and spent his first four seasons there. 

He signed with the Tennessee Titans as a free agent in 2021 before being released in November of that same year. He was claimed off waivers by the Lions two days later, then signed a two-year, $6 million extension with Detroit in March 2022.

In eight seasons, Reynolds has caught 220 balls on 373 targets for 2,933 yards and 19 touchdowns.